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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

#81

I'm blown away by this: "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." I assumed this was going to be the sticking point for wider usage for a long time. They're now saying that you have full rights to sell Dall-E 2 creations?

I think they are reacting to competition. MidJourney is amazing, was easier to get into, gives you commercial rights, and frankly I found more fun to use and even better output in most instances.

MidJourney seems a little less all-out commercial. The way everyone’s creations are in giant open Discord channels is great too

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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post #78

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

They literally just add "black" and "female" with some weight before any prompt containing person. A comical work around to so called "bias" (isn't the whole point of these models to encode some bias?). Here's some experimentation showing this. https://twitter.com/rzhang88/status/1549472829304741888 As competitors with lower price points prop up, you'll see everyone ditch models with "anti bias" measures and take the…

Add after. So you can see the added words by making a prompt like "a person holding a sign saying ", and then the sign says the extra words if they are added.

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#84

I am thrilled about DALL-E, and the new terms of service. However, how they implemented the improved "diversity" is hilarious. Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female". See https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440 I don't know which emotion I feel more - applause at how glorious this hack is or tears at how ugly it is. Good luck to…

it's a hard problem. at least they tried.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

#85

I'm blown away by this: "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." I assumed this was going to be the sticking point for wider usage for a long time. They're now saying that you have full rights to sell Dall-E 2 creations?

> "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." >> And I just used it to create cover art for a book published in Amazon :) Man... what a missed opportunity for Altman... he could have had a really good cryptocurrency/token with a healthy ecosyste…

Why is using a token better than using money, in this case?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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post #28

Something I haven’t seen anyone talking about with these huge models: how do future models get trained when more content online is model generated to start with? Presumably you don’t wanna train a model on autogenerated images or text, but you can’t necessarily know which is which.

It's a cybernetic feedback system. Dalle is used to create new images, the images that people find most interesting and noteworthy get shared online, and reincorporated into the training data, but now filtered through human desire.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

#87

Interesting. I got access couple weeks ago (was on waitlist since the initial announcement) and frankly as much as really want to be excited and like it, DALL-E ended up being a bit underwhelming. IMHO - often results that produced are of low quality (distorted images, or quite wacky representation of the query). Some styles of imagery are certainly a better fit for being generated by DALL-E, but as far as commercial…

I also got access a couple of weeks ago and I can't fathom how anyone could be underwhelmed by it.

What were you expecting?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

#89

I am thrilled about DALL-E, and the new terms of service. However, how they implemented the improved "diversity" is hilarious. Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female". See https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440 I don't know which emotion I feel more - applause at how glorious this hack is or tears at how ugly it is. Good luck to…

> Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female".

I wonder what the distribution of those modifications is?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

#90

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

Yes the quality of surrealist generations went down with that change suddenly including gender and race into prompts that I really didn't want anything specific in. Like a snail radio DJ, and suddenly the microphone is a woman of colours head.. I understand the intention but I want this to be a default on but you can turn it off thing.
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